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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE RMOORE, of Lyons, in the county of Clinton, and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements invAutomatic Car-Couplings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. y v o The object .of my invention is to provide for coupling cars withoutany undue exposure ofthe life or limbs ofthe operator.

My invention consists in part of a coupling-link, (at least,) one end ot` which is arrow-headed, and both may be so, as in the drawing, figs. 1 and-2, A.l The drawingsl.

Figure 1, shows a top plan of two ordinary bumpers, B B, used in cars, with the link, oi` my invention, A, coupling them together; and

Figur-e2 isa side view of thc same.

. e is an ordinary coupling-pin, d is a. friction-stay, designed to hold the link firmly enough to crowd it into the clamps e e, which turn upon pivots at ff, and the outward ends of them passing down the whole width of the bumpers, thus formingjaws between which the arrow-headed link is pushed beyond theshoulders gg. It will now be seen that any outward pressure upon the arrow-headed link tio extricateit will tend to clasp Vthe levers e e more tightly upon its sides. L is both a lever and spring, and when placed forward of the nibz',- it keeps the levers e e near enough together to catch the arrow-headed link, and whcnplaeed back of the nib i', it opens the jaws of the levers und releases the link. In case the link should hit the bumper and not come between the levers, it is designed that rl should give way by turning on its rivet, and thus allow the link to slide back into the bumper. I l Y Figure 3 shows a link-holder, and is seen in place in tig. 2,3'. t

The link vis provided with pins to receive it, k k, and the lever or holder,l iig.3, has also a rack, by which it will hold itself wherever placed upon the bumper. It may be used by hond, or be made an automatic holder by using Athe ratchet Z Z.

l Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v i v The diverging levers or clasps, when held and operated by the arrangement of springs and catches, as and for the purpose set forth.

' GEO. R. MOORE.

Witnesses CARL VANDEVENTER,

LEwIs GoDLovE'. 

